New Works: SpaceMan

The latest assignment for my color theory class was to create a digital work that dealt with art. So I took the Space Man I did for the limited palette assignment, and made a gif:

I can't WAIT to make more janky gifs.

Work Crush: Thai movie posters

In 1999, when I was 15, I started looking at ebay. One of the searches that still remains a favorite is for Thai horror movie posters. There's something so strange and beautiful about how the characters are rendered, in an almost air-brush manner. The selection of imagery is also excellent, like the artist picked the very best parts of the movies to put on their posters. 

Evil Dead

Evil Dead 2

 More delights after the jump!

Recent works: color theory assignment: optical mixing

*Sorry for the untimeliness of this post. The house I'm sitting is having some ridiculous internet connectivity issues, and I'm not sure how to correct it.

For the optical mixing assignment in my color theory class, I decided to do something I hadn't done in a very long time, if ever: a self-portrait based on life. Taken from a picture for a transit pass in Prague from the summer of 2010, I stayed true to the structure of my face rather than just giving myself one huge eye and gumdrop teeth. I made myself green, because, well...I couldn't make it completely serious. 

The point of this assignment was to use two or more colors in a way that from a distance they appear to be a certain color, but when you get near, you can see the distinct colors laying next to each other. Think pointillism from your art history class.


                                             

 Let's build a face!

Work Crush: Postcommodity: Pollination

This past week I was in Phoenix visiting my parents, which is normally a relaxing, though uneventful affair. Luckily, this trip happened to coincide with 2 pieces by the art group Postcommodity showing at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Having known one of the group's members, Raven Chacon, for quite a while, I was very excited to see these pieces in person.

More!

Recent Work: Getting home.

I recently visited my friend Anna Reser in Norman, Oklahoma,  where she's going to school for her master's degree in physical science (Focusing on images of the American space program).
I flew into Dallas since it's about $200 cheaper than flying into Oklahoma city.  Unfortunately for Anna,  two days before my flight home,  something fell out of her car's engine.  Fortunately for me,  there's a commuter train that runs from Norman to Fort Worth, with a connection to Dallas.
What was supposed to be a 3 hour ride, with a 2 hour stop and finished by another hour of train riding ended up being an 8 hour non-stop train ride.

More rails after the jump

Recent works: left handed self portraits

In December,  I broke my right (dominant) arm right above the wrist,  which I then had to have surgery on.  This resulted in me not being able to use my right hand for about 6 weeks.  During this time,  I began to draw daily self portraits with my left hand,  as a means to keep some form of normal art practice.

Some of the results:

Not too shabby.